USN-4204-1

Riccardo Schirone discovered that psutil incorrectly handled certain reference counting operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause psutil to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / python-psutil

Package

Name: python-psutil
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/python-psutil@3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.2.1-3

3.*

3.4.1-1

3.4.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "No subscription required",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "python-psutil",
            "binary_version":  "3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "python3-psutil",
            "binary_version":  "3.4.2-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2019-18874",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "medium",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4204-1.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / python-psutil